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If you have been blessed with naturally beautiful, problem-free skin, stop reading now. If you haven't, come and sit on my team. Like most of the female population (I suspect), I have long been engaged in a love-hate struggle with my skin. And by that I mean a pitched battle involving chemical warfare and instruments of torture that may well contravene the Geneva convention. I only came to some form of truce with it when I hit my thirties. This may be one of the (few) benefits of ageing or it may be down to finding a regime that works for me. Either way, I thought I'd share my hard-won insights with you in a new (cue fanfare) Paper Flowers beauty mini-series!
This series is not called 'how to have perfect skin' because, despite the promise of, oh, every skincare advert you are ever likely to see, ABSOLUTELY PERFECT SKIN! ALL THE TIME! FOREVER! is neither achievable, nor a sensible goal if you want to maintain some outward semblance of sanity. Half-decent skin most of the time, then, is our aim here. And that is a reasonable ambition for most of us.
Everyone's skin is different, so I can only say that this works for normal-to-combination skin that is prone to the occasional breakout (i.e. mine). I have learned from bitter experience that keeping it simple is the best way of avoiding problems, so the four steps in my regime are cleanser, moisturiser, foundation and the odd face mask (very odd when I'm wearing the charcoal one that used to prompt my former partner to break into black-and-white minstrels songs).
To read the full post visit: http://paperflowersonline.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-have-half-decent-s...
Paper Flowers: style for a new planet - http://paperflowersonline.blogspot.com/
